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by pg 13y ago
Yes, it's true a lot of VCs will encourage you to spend faster than you should. I warn about this in essays and in a lot of individual conversations with founders. But fortunately they can never do more than encourage, because founde
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by pg 13y ago
This is the crux of the argument: "If you raise funding, however, it cuts out a number of the middle options. VCs will definitely want an exit, and if the exit is too low, this can turn a fairly decent success into a relative failure f
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by pg 13y ago
Not that I know of.
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Boardinghouses: where the city was born(bostonglobe.com)
84 points by pg 13y ago|19 comments
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by pg 13y ago
If you mean you think this article was the work of a PR firm, no, it wasn't. The reporter emailed me after he saw a tweet of mine about how many different countries the founders in the latest batch were from.
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by pg 13y ago
It's hard to say for sure because we don't ask people what race they identify as, and we don't know offhand which people are citizens and which aren't. But Michael Seibel seems a good bet if you want an example to encou
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by pg 13y ago
Actually Palo Alto is an exceptionally bike-friendly place. I wouldn't live in a town that wasn't. I've never seen a town in the US where a higher percentage of students bicycled to school, or serious cycling was a hobby of
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by pg 13y ago
Apologies for looking at everything through startup-colored glasses, but my first thought on reading this was that LA is going to have a hard time becoming a startup hub with attitudes like this. The hackers and designers that startups wan
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by pg 13y ago
Remarkable how evenly distributed the up and down trending articles are...
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by pg 13y ago
What exactly do you expect Rockstar to do? That begs the question. Apple and Microsoft should not have created this evil zombie company in the first place.
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by pg 13y ago
The purpose of patents is to suppress competition for one's own products. These patents don't protect any novel aspect of Apple's or Microsoft's products. By definition, if they're valid.
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by pg 13y ago
Lots of the patents now used by patent trolls were originally granted to companies that meant to use them to protect things they built. What matters here is not Nortel, but Rockstar. And Rockstar frankly seems to me to be worse than ordin
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A Start-Up Moves Teachers Past Data Entry(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
67 points by pg 13y ago|13 comments
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by pg 13y ago
We already have that rule. The site guidelines explicitly ask that people not use HN as a support forum for companies we've funded. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We let this and the last one go lest peopl
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by pg 13y ago
I would not be the one to ask. I don't understand the details of the protocol. All I could describe is the general idea of a cryptocurrency.
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by pg 13y ago
Incidentally, Coinbase's graph has an almost misleadingly modest aspect ratio. If you want to compare their growth to other growth graphs you've seen, compress it by at least half horizontally.
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by pg 13y ago
YC has gotten bigger. I don't write everything myself anymore, and other people may feel they can't take such liberties with formats.
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by pg 13y ago
It's true Yuri is mainly a late stage investor, but for a while he experimented with earlier stage investments.
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by pg 13y ago
They're totally accepted.
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by pg 13y ago
Enterprise customers pay a lot once you get them paying, but selling to them is brutally hard.
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by pg 13y ago
Hrm, there have been so many articles about this: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/adam-davidson-mob... http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2011/11
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Why Are Americans Staying Put?(nytimes.com)
55 points by pg 13y ago|50 comments
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by pg 13y ago
Oops, all I know is that this founder is from Sudan.
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by pg 13y ago
There have been others. The founders of RethinkDB and Accunote are Russian.
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by pg 13y ago
Another correction: I should have said za instead of sa.
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by pg 13y ago
Sorry, I should have used za instead of sa. Also the fi was a mistake.
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by pg 13y ago
Yes, Sudan. No, we've funded lots of startups from overseas in the past. I remember one batch a few years ago that was 20% international.
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Around 75, including the nonprofits. We're never sure of the exact number at this stage, because some we accept at interviews explode on the starting line, and we sometimes accept late applications. It wasn't any kind of delibera
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by pg 13y ago
"I suspect that, by removing certain kinds of feedback, the experience of flying an Airbus is rewiring pilots' brains in dangerous ways." I don't know whether that's true or not, but that seems something it might be
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by pg 13y ago
For the most part not so strong that it's hard to understand what they're saying, which is the critical threshold. There are a few I'm worried about though.

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